Dublin

In Dublin - St. Patrick's Cathedral, at the Guinness factory tour, an interesting public notice concerning dogs, a historical marker

Apartment Update

We got it!!!!!!!!!!!! (Please note that I use multiple exclamation marks very rarely.)

Final price: 237.5K - we are very happy with that. Mortgage rates are also around 4.7 right now, so it's an amazing time to get a mortgage too.

Anyway - it's all just happened so quickly, yet we feel very peaceful about it. Christian goes and attends the home inspection tomorrow morning while I do my last day in the lab, and then we fly off for Dublin on Saturday. Pretty wild.

We're very much looking forward to showing it off once we move in! Closing date is April 30. We're probably going to keep our Hyde Park apartment through the end of June. I do my radiation oncology rotation in May, so we don't want to be doing all the work of moving at that time. This way we can be relaxed & hopefully do it with less stress.

Belated St Pat's Day Video (hilarious)

Muppets do "Danny Boy"

More real estate news

Christian and I just made a bid on an apartment tonight. It's been an interesting ride the past week or two. Many of you know we had been looking at places in Hyde Park. There were a couple that we were thinking seriously of buying, but we never got the feeling of a place being 100% right. Then we got the idea of looking in Printer's Row, a fabulous little historic neighborhood that borders directly on the Loop to the south of old printing house buildings from the 1890's and 1900's converted into lofts . It's near a stop on the train from South Bend, and is positioned within a couple blocks of every single El/Subway line in Chicago, and many buses, including great bus connection to Hyde Park. It's really right at the center of everything. So, we started looking just this past weekend at places there.

So we found a wonderful place that felt completely right to both of us, and we're going to try to buy it, and probably move at the end of April. Here are some links if you want to check it out:
Virtual tour
Listing information

Liverpool Station dance

Slumdog Millionaire doesn't have the only train station dance. This commercial was shot at the Liverpool Street Subway Station in London on 15 Jan 2009. Only the dancers knew what was happening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ3d3KigPQM

A little piece of cool news...

The article that I was working on in the fall and presented as a poster at the radiation oncology conference has been accepted by the best-known radiation oncology journal!

Jakie-pie

Our exciting news: Jake slept through the night last night -- 9:30 p.m. to 6 a.m.!